CIS 371 (Spring 2008): Digital Systems Organization and Design
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This course is the lecture component of CIS372.
Announcements
- [May 7] - The Homework 2 Solutions are up.
- [April 28] - All the lecture notes are now online
- [April 16] - Homework 3 is up. It is due Wed, April 23.
- [April 3] - Homework 2 is up. It is due Monday, April 14th.
- [March 16] - The midterm exam, midterm solutions, and distribution are available
- [Feb 27] - Homework 1 Solutions are up.
- [Feb 18] - Homework 1 is up. It is due Monday, Feb 25th
- [Feb 1] - The midterm will be on Monday, March 3rd
- [Feb 1] - The Course Schedule page is now up
- [Jan 25] - Web page up
Office Hours
- Prof. Martin:
- From 4:30 to 5pm on any day I lecture for CIS371 (basically, the 30 minutes or so after class).
- Thursdays from 1:30 to 2:30pm.
- By appointment
- Arun Raghavan's office hours (knock on 614 Levine and check the 6th floor lounge area):
- Tuesdays from 1:30 to 3:00
- Thursdays 3:00 to 4:30
- Special office hour on Feb 22nd from 3pm to 4:30pm.
Lecture Notes
- Unit 0 - Introduction
- Unit 1 - Instruction Set Architectures
- Unit 2 - Single-Cycle Datapath and Control
- Unit 3 - Performance
- Unit 4 - Integer Arithmetic
- Unit 5 - Floating Point Arithmetic
- Unit 6 - Pipelining
- Unit 7 - Superscalar
- Midterm review
- Unit 8 - Static and Dynamic Scheduling
- Unit 9 - Caches
- Unit 10 - Shared Memory & Multicore
- Unit 11 - Virtual Memory & I/O
- Unit 12 - Reliability
- Unit 13 - Power
- Unit 14 - Vectors
- Unit 15 - Recap (based on XBox 360 Presentation from HotChips 2005 and Xbox 360 System Architecture)
Homeworks
- Homework 1 - Homework 1 Solutions
- Homework 2 - Branch predictor experiments - Homework 2 Solutions
- Homework 3 - Cache experiments
Schedule
See the course schedule
Course Syllabus
Course Description
This course is the lecture component of the CIS371/CIS372 pair. The focus of CIS371 is on understanding the design and performance of computers. The description from the course catalog:
(Prerequisite(s): CIS 240, knowledge of at least one programming language). This is the second computer organization course and focuses on computer hardware design. Topics covered are: (1) basic digital system design including finite state machines, (2) instruction set design and simple RISC assembly programming, (3) quantitative evaluation of computer performance, (4) circuits for integer and floating-point arithmetic, (5) datapath and control, (6) micro-programming, (7) pipelining, (8) storage hierarchy and virtual memory, (9) input/output, (10) different forms of parallelism including instruction level parallelism, data-level parallelism using both vectors and message-passing multi-processors, and thread-level parallelism using shared memory multiprocessors. Basic cache coherence and synchronization.
Prerequisites
CIS240 is an absolute prerequisite for this course. In addition, CIS372 is a co-requisite (that is, you must be taking CIS372 in parallel).
Grading
Grading breakdown for the course is as follows:
- Homeworks: 20%
- Exams: 77% (35% midterm, 42% final)
- Class participation: 3%
Reading Materials
We will use one textbook: Patterson and Hennessy, "Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface" (THIRD edition).
Academic Misconduct
Academic misconduct such as cheating will not be tolerated. The work you submit in this class is expected to be your own. If you submit work that has in part or in whole been copied from some published or unpublished source (including current or former students), or that has been prepared by someone other than you, or that in any way misrepresents somebody else's work as your own, you will face severe discipline by the university. (Adapted from text appearing at the Office of Student Conduct page.)
Any detected cases of cheating will be pursued. Penalties can include: receiving a zero on the assignment (the minimum penalty), failing the course, having a note placed in your permanent academic record, suspension, and ultimately expulsion.
See Penn's Code of Academic Integrity for more information.